Category Archives: books

The Joker’s Wild

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Here’s another one from our friend, Jane Clifford. We’ve been calling her Welsh, but she informs us she’s Irish, but has lived in Wales for 30 years.***Last summer my friend was collecting joker cards from playing card packs, so in … Continue reading →

Posted in books, cards, trickster | 15 Comments

The Girl from Petrovka

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Trish and Rob

This is one that we’ve known about since before starting the blog, but somehow we forgot to post it. It’s a good one…and even comes with a celebrity.***When Anthony Hopkins was researching his part for the film of George Feifer’s … Continue reading →

Posted in actors, Anthony Hopkins, books, movies, writers | 8 Comments

The Space Between

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Trish and Rob

I was editing a chapter in our book recently working with a synchronicity called Blue Dog that Tony Vigorito had offered when I came to this phrase within it: Good atmosphere, good friends, good conversation, good wine, good books, and … Continue reading →

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Book sale synchronicity

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Here’s an interesting and somewhat humorous synchronicity related to the sale of our book proposal on synchronicity. Last week, an editor who heard that we had an offer decided to immediately pitch the book to the sales staff. She was … Continue reading →

Posted in books, publishing, writers | 8 Comments

Vox Piscis

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Trish and Rob

We’re traveling this week so we’ve availed Robert Ripley’s Giant Book of Believe it or Not a couple of times. Here’s another one.*** In 1626, a fishmonger in Cambridge, England pulled out a book that was bound in sailcloth from … Continue reading →

Posted in books, fish, heretics, word seriality | 7 Comments

The Friendship Book

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Trish and Rob

This cover for the book is from 2005. I couldn’t find any from the 1960s. – Trish***We initially ran across Keith Fraser’s story while trolling the strange coincidence archive – – a real treasure trove of synchronicities. We liked his … Continue reading →

Posted in books, c2, precognition, relationships, romance | 2 Comments

Indiana Jones and the Last Synchronicity

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Some of you might know that back in the early ’90s I wrote seven Indiana Jones novels, starting with The Last Crusade, then backtracking to the 1920s when Indy was just starting his career as an archaeologist. A few years … Continue reading →

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Petrarch’s view

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Here’s a synchronicity that was a key factor in the life of an important figure who played a starring role in history at the outset of the Renaissance. Petrarch 1304-1374, an Italian scholar and poet, is known as the father … Continue reading →

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Synchronicity in Paris

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Here’s another one from Mysteries of the Unknown. It involves a lost object, a writer, and Paris. A winning combination! Novelist Anne Parrish was born in 1888 and died in 1957. She spent her childhood in Colorado Springs and apparently … Continue reading →

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RUSHDIE

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Sharlie West is a writer who contributed an earlier synchronicity about her mother and her current partner, Mom’s Help, a March 6 post. She really gets right to the emotional heart. While reading a book on synchronicity, Synchronicity and You, … Continue reading →

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